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Potawatomi Indians Cooking

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Description: Illustration of three Potawatomi Indians cooking.
Photograph

J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company

Date: 09 21 1922
Description: Elevated view of the J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company showing the bog in the background with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian cranberry pickers' camp at the ...
Photograph

Ojibwa Lodge

Date: 1906
Description: Ojibwa chief's lodge from Lac Courte Orielles Reservation set up at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Note both reed and bark coverings on the lodge. A number...
Photograph

Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
Photograph

Chippewa Lodging Framework

Date: 1929
Description: Framework for a Chippewa (Ojibwa) wigwam (left) and long medicine lodge at Lac du Flambeau. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepare...
Photograph

Covered Wigwam

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Description: A wigwam covered with store canvas. This cyanotype image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, first curator of photogr...
Photograph

Chippewa Cabin at Clear Lake

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Description: A cabin at Clear Lake (Vilas County), a small Chippewa (Ojibwa) settlement, occupied by a white man and his Native American wife. This image is part of an ...
Photograph

Chippewa Medicine Man and His Family

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Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) medicine man John King, with his wife, grandchild, and family standing near a birch wigwam on the Lake Court Oreilles reservation. John K...
Photograph

Native Americans and Whites

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Description: An unexplained group consisting of two white men, two white children, and two Native American women standing in front of a tent. The original caption stat...
Photograph

Chippewa Family Moving

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Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) family moving their disassembled wagon and grindstone from one village to another on two canoes somewhere in northern Wisconsin. This i...
Photograph

Chippewa Family

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Description: A Native American (Ojibwa) family photographed on the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul...
Photograph

Potowatomi Joe Wisconsin

Date: 1911
Description: Joe Wisconsin, a Potowatomi Indian, grandson of Sheboygan war chief Pa-mob-a-mee. Wisconsin was born at Sheboygan Falls about 1833 and is known to have be...
Photograph

Sioux Native Americans and Wigwams

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Description: Sioux Native Americans and their wigwams near St. Paul.
Photograph

Henry Kendall College Cottage for Girls

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Description: A Henry Kendall College cottage, Minerva, for girls.
Photograph

Henry Kendall College Boy's Dormitory

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Description: Henry Kendall College Boy's Dormitory.
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Home of Creek family

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Description: Caption on print reads "Home of an educated Creek, 12 miles from Muskogee, Oklahoma".
Photograph

Creek Woman Pounds Meal

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Description: A Creek woman pounds meal outside.
Photograph

Creek Man

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Description: A Creek man of the house relaxes outside.
Photograph

Cowboys at Indian Ranch House

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Description: Cowboys come in for dinner at an Indian Territory ranch house. Their horses wait near trees.
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Agua Caliente Village

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Description: A view of the principal street from the women's ranch in the Agua Caliente village of the Mission Agency in California.

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